Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-18
LOCAL NEWS.

The graded school will suspend on
Thursday and Friday of next week, so
that the scholars can observe Thanks
giving.
Those who join the Ladies' library be-
tween this date and December can have
books from that date to January /, 1889,
Is months, for the usual annual fee of ST.
Bishop Bissell was unable to come here
last Sunday to confirm the class, and will
come next Monday and hold confirma-
ton service at st. Stephens in the eve
ming.
The Thanksgiving sermon will be
preached at the Congregational church
by Rev. T. G. Thompson, the Methsdist
pastor. The service will be held at the
usual morning hour, 10 AS.
George Minor, arrested Tuesday night
for intoxcation, pleaded guilty when ar
raigned before Judge Knapp Wednesday
morning and was fined the usual So. He
disclosed on Joseph Fortier of Weybridge,
who was fined for furnishing.
large company was gathered on
Wednesday evening at the residence of
Henry S. Foote, Esq, to listen to the
temperance drama under the auspices of
the W. c. I. L. The parts were well
rendered and the evening enjoyable.
Onions are becoming scarce hereabouts
and are worth IS to so cents bushel.
Potatoes sell at 50 cents. Hay is gen.
orally of poor quality and dealers say
they can't pay oyer IS to 50 and get out
of it. There is no change in the butter
market.
Letters addressed as follows have re-
manned at the postoffice one month I'M
called for: Miss Annie Baird, Mrs. Jen-
ME Bissett, Mrs. S. L. Brown, Fred Day,
Miss Mamie Hyde, Miss Eva Ring, Mrs.
5. j. Remsen, Miss Clenie TIME, Mrs.
Alma W. Verdenburg, Miss Cardie Webb,
Mrs. Maggie Wright.
Everyone is looking forward to the
fair for the Y. NJ. c. A., to be held on
Wednesday. Nov. 30, at the association
supply of fancy articles, refreshments
will be furnished and many novelties to
be seen in Middlebury for the first time.
Many of the ladies are working for the
fair every Friday at Mrs. B. S. Beckwith's
and large attendance this afternoon is
desired.
There has been considerable work In
legal circles the past week in preparation
for the coming term of the county court.
The hearing in the chancery case of A.
p. Upper, Esq, vs.! Orrin Danforth and
wife, before W. w. Rider, Esq, special
master, was concluded on Monday. The
cause is foreclosure of two mortgages
which the defendants claim to have paid,
and show the plaintiffs quit-claim deed,
which they assert covers and releases the
mortgaged premises. The plaintiff claims
that the mortgages are unpaid, that the
release does not cover the premises, or,
If it does, that they were included therein
by mistake, and asks to have the deed re-
formed in that respect. c. NJ. Wilds and
w. ii. Bliss, Esqs., appeared for the
plaintiff and L. ii. Mcleod and Jas. NJ.
e,ade, Esqs., and Hon. Henry Ballard for
the defendants. Yesterday hearing
was begun before Geo. w. Wales, ESQ,
of Burlington, special master, in the
chancery case of Upper and Porter VS..
n. F. Rider and wife, where plaintiffs
seek to foreclose mortgage Oh the defen-
dant's homestead given to secure a con-
tract of agency for the running of the
Case q Rider drugstore by n. F. Rider
for the plaintiffs. G. NJ. Wilds and w.
ii. Bliss, Esqs., represented the plaintiffs
and James NJ. Slade, Esq, and Hon. L.
E. Knapp, the defendants.